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THE  COLLECTION  OF 
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A  sheet  called  “  The  White  M  an,” 
has  been  issued  and  circulated  bv  ene- 
mies  of  the  Amendment,  in  which  an 
attempt  is  made  to  show  that  the  negro 
is  at  least  the  equal  of  the  white  man. 
We  do  not  propose  to  discuss  whether 
a  negro  is  as  good  as  a  white  man.  No 
true  white  man  will  discuss  this  ques¬ 
tion  with  the  negro  or  his  white  allies. 
The  white  man  who  asserts  by  word  or 
action  that  the  negro  is  the  equal  of  the 
white  man  is  beneath  the  contempt  of 
his  race. 

We  give  on  this  sheet  some  of  the 
insults  to  white  men  and  white  women 
and  threats  of  lawlessness  and  violence 
made  by  the  negro  and  his  white  allies. 


JUDGE  ADAMS’ 


POLITICAL  SPEECH  IN  CHARGE  TO  GRAND 
JURY  OF  COLUMBUS  COUNTY. 

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(Columbus  News.) 

His  Honor  Judge  Spencer  B.  Adams  ar¬ 
rived  on  the  morning  train  from  the  South. 
His  Honor’s  charge  to  the  jury,  we  will  do 
him  the  justice  to  say,  was  the  best  (be¬ 
ing  the  only)  political  speech  we  ever  heard 
delivered  from  the  bench.  We  have  been 
reporting  court  proceedings  here  for  about 
six  years  and  in  that  time  a  number  of 
judges  have  been  here  whose  political  af~ 
filiafci  ons  differed  from  ours,  but  we  have 
had  no  occasion  to  refer  to  any  of  them 
in  uncomplimentary  terms.  We  regret  the 
necessity  of  doing  so  now. 

He  reached  the  climax  of  his  charge 
when  lie  came  to  discuss  fornication  and 
adultery.  He  said  that  “  nine  times  out 
of  ten,  if  you  will  chase  down  the  fellows 
who  are  going  about  trying  to  stir  up  race 
prejudice  you  will  find  them  sleeping  with 
a  negro  woman.”  When  we  consider  that 
numbers  of  as  good  people  a&  rhere  are  in 
the  State  are  “  going  about  stirring  up 
race  prejudice,”  as  he  would  doubtless 
call  it,  his  statement  becomes  a  mdst 
sweeping  V ill ifieatioh,  and  one  which  can- 
lot  be  properly  characterized  in  temperate 
language. 

And  he  said  this  with  a  kind  of  a  “  re¬ 
member  the  Maine  ”  expression  on  his 


countenance  which  seemed  to  indicate  his 
regret  that  there  was  not,  a  law  by  which 
Democratic  speakers  and  papers  could  be 
stopped  from  telling  the  people  of  the  foot¬ 
hold  which  negro  supremacy  had  obtained 
under  the  present  administration. 

And  this  was  not  all.  Proceeding  to  the 
question  of  rape,  he  argued  to  the  jury 
that  it  was  a  lesser  offense  than  seduction, 
because  the  only  difference  was,  lie  said, 
that  one  was  committed  by  force  and  the 
.other  by  fraud.  It  required  some  courage 
for  the  former.  He  illustrated  his  posi¬ 
tion  by  saying  he  had  rather  his  purse  be 
stolen  by'  a  highwayman  than  by  deception. 
We  may  not  be  surprised  that  assaults 
upon  white  women  by  brutes— the  lowest 
crimes  in  the  eyes  of  the  law  as  well  ns  of 
men,  to  which  it  is  possible  to  descend — 
are  so  alarmingly  on  the  increase,  when  a 
judge  on  the  bench  attempts  to  minimize 
its  hemousness  and  argues  to  a  grand  jury 
that  it  is  less  a  crime  than  one  for  which 
the  most  extreme  penalty  is  a  term  in  the 
penitential' v. 


THE  NEGBO  MANLY 


WHA  T  HE  SAID . 


“  We  suggest  that  the  white  guard  their 
women  more  closely,  as  Mrs.  Felton  says: 
thus  giving  no  opportunity  for  the  human 
fiend,  be  lie  white  or  black.  You  leave 
your  goods  our,  of  doors  and  then  complain 
because  they  are  taken  away.  Poor  white 
men  are  careless  in  the  manner  of  protect¬ 
ing  their  women ,  especially  on  farms.  They 
are  careless  of  their  conduct  toward  them, 
and  our  experience  among  poor  white 
people  in  the  country  teaches  us  that. the 
women  of  that  race  are  not  any  more  par¬ 
ticular  in  the  manner  of  clandestine  meet¬ 
ings  with  colored  men  t  han  are  the  white 
men  with  colored  women.  Meetings  of 
this  kind  go  on  for  some  time,  until  I. he 
woman’s  infal  nation  or  the  man's  boldness 
brings  attention  to  them  and  the  man  is 
lynched  for  rape.  Every  negro  lynched  is 
called  a  big,  burly,  black  brute,”  when 
in  fact  many  of  those  who  have  'ms  been 
dealt  with  had  white  men  for  their  .fathers, 
and  were  not  only  “  black  ”  and  *'  burly  ” 
but  were  sufficiently  attractive  for  white 
girls  of  culture  and  refinement  to  fall  in 
love  wit vi  them, os  is  vveil  known  to  ail.  — 

Fegro  Manly  in  Ins  paper,  The  Record. 

Are  you  surprised  that  the  white  men  of 
Wilmington  drove  him  from  their  city'/ 


r  *  *\ 


THE  N.EG110  AND  HIS  WHITE  ALIA  ES. 


“  NEGSOES  WILL  GET  AT  THE 
THROATS  OP  THE 
WHITE  MEN.” 


The  latest  outbreak  comes  from  a 
negro  editor,  T,  Thomas  Fortune,  and  one 
\y.  O.  Murphy,  presumably  a  negro  also. 
These  two  negroes  were  the  chiei  orators 
at  a  negro  meeting  held  in  Brooklyn  last 
Sunday  to  celebrate  the  one  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  birth  of  John  Brown. 

The  meeting  was  held  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Society  of  the-  Sons  of  North  Carolina, 
which  is  composed  of  colored  men  who 
have  gone  from  this  State  to  live  in  New 
York. 

Here  are  a  few  extracts  from  Fortune's 
speech  on  the  halcyon  occasion,  as  reported 
by  the  New  York  Sunt 

“  It  cost  tons  of  blood  to  put  the  fifteenth 
amendment  into  the  Constitution,  and  it 
will  cost  tens  of  tons  to  put  it  out.  You 
must  organize  and  keep  your  powder  dry 
in  order  to  demand  an  eye  for  an  eye  and 
a  tooth  for  a  tooth  in  the  great  crisis  which 
will  soon  be  upon  the  negro,  in  which  much 
blood  may  be  spilled.  The  first  gun  of  the 
fight  was  fire.d  at  tire  Montgomery  confer¬ 
ence. 

*  &  a  a  it  a  -s 

“If  the  negro  wants  his  rights  in  tire 
South,  he  must  fight  for  them,  or  lie  must 
leave  the  South.  I  have  formerly  opposed. 
Bishop  Turner  in  his  appeal,  to  the  negroes 
to  leave  the  South,  but  I  shall  myself  start 
a  crusade  to  have  all  the  negroes  to  leave 
the  South  and  come  North,  or  go  else¬ 
where,  where  they  can  be  men. 

“There  is  nowise  living  in  the  South  and 
crying  peace,  peace,  when  there  is  no  peace. 
I  believe  in  law  and  order,  but  when  the 
law  does  not  protect  you,  you  should  fight 
and  die,  if  need  be.  You  should  demand 
an  eye  for  an  eye  and  a  tooth  for  a  tooth. 
The  negro  will  never  command  respect  un¬ 
til  he  shall  strike  a  blow  that  will  ,  win  for 
himself  the  respect  of  the  world,  for  even 
God  has  no  respect  for  a  coward.  The  ne¬ 
gro  should  be  brave  and  follow  his  leaders, 
whether  they  lead  to  Calvary  or  to  a  scaf¬ 
fold  in  West  Virginia.  There  is  coming  a 
great  crisis  for  the  negro,  and  the  first  gun 
was  fired  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  when  it 
was  proposed  that  the  fifteenth  amend¬ 
ment  to  the  Constitution  should  be  re¬ 
pealed,  But  there  can  be  no  settling  of 
the  negro  problem  with  the  negro  out  of 
it,  it  matters  not  how  many  conferences  of 
white  men  are  held. 

“There -is  now  10,000,000  oi  us,  with 
2,000,000  fighting  men,  and  in  some  great 
crisis  in  this  country  these  2,000,009  ne¬ 
groes  will  get  at  the  throats  of  the  white 
men  who  have  wronged  and  outraged  their 
citizenship.” 

The  Washington  Post,  commenting  upon 
this  remarkable  meeting,  has  this  to  say 
of  Fortune  and  his  pestiferous  drivel  : 

He  is  well  educated,  a  good  and  forcible 
writer,  and,  under  ordinary  circumstances, 
a  very  sensible  and  well-meaning  person. 
We  wonder  whether  he  realizes  that,  in 
this  frantic  outburst,  lie  has  illustrated  the 
most  pessimistic  estimate  of  the  negro 
character — the  proposition,  for  example, 
that  no  amount  of  scholastic  training  or 
contact  with  Caucasian  civilization  will 
ever  eradicate  ihe  savage  instincts  of  his 
race. 


In  recent  speech  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  a 
negro,  YV.  O.  Murphy,  in  referring  to  the 
campaign  in  this  State,  uses  the  following 
incendiary  language : 

“The  negro  has  always  been  a  peaceful 
mail  and  has  only  fought  when  the  issue 
was  forced  upon  him.  The  trouble  is  that 
the  negro  was  born  in  poverty  and  has  not 
been  able  to  secure. the  arms  to  resist  the 
invasion  of  his  home  and  his  rights,  but 
the  negro  should  study,  so  as  to  learn  how 
to  manufacture  dynamite,  so  that  when  he 
is  attacked  he  can  resist  bis  oppressors,  as 
the  Russians  and  Germans  ha've  done.” 

Such  utterances  should  be  a  warning  to 
the  white  people  of  North  Carolina.  Such 
harangues  to  ignorant  and  excitable  crowds 
will  bear  fruit.  And  that  fruit  can  be  but 
a  reenactment  of  the  Wilmington  riot. 
The  army  of  invasion  suggested  will  not 
be  raised,  dynamite  may  riot  be  used,  but 
the  negro  will  become  more  and  more  in¬ 
solvent,  as  a  citizen  and  dangerous  as  a 
member  of  society,  and  the  ultimate 
result  will  be  hloodslied  on  both  sides  un¬ 
less  something  is  done  to  check  his  grow¬ 
ing  insosence,  born  of  l lie  idea  that  he  is 
the  equal  in  every  respect  of  the  white 
man. 


ADAMS  AS  A  NEGRO  LEADER 

THE  WOULD  BE  GOVERNOR  S  PAST  RECORD 
A  MIGHTY  MOTLEY  ONE. 

As  to  how  the  Republican  nominee  for 
Governor  stands  on  the  relations  of  the 
white  man  and  the  ra-gro,  the  Caswell 
Democrat,  published  at  Adams'  home, 
gives  some  facts  which  te !l  n  disgusting 
story.  Here  is  the  record  of  'he  man: 

Judge  Adams  said  in  a  ■■  pencil  in  1890 
when  he  was  candidate  for  clerk,  that 
white  men  of  Caswell  were  so  mean,  un¬ 
scrupulous  and  dirty  that  vultures  had 
gotten  the  scent  and  ceased  to  soar,  and 
the  man  in  the  moon  puked  on  every 
gleaming  star  that  shone  upon  the  be- 
foulded  bed.-  of  rotten  degrading  white 
men  of  Caswell.  Again  in  1894 .  when  he 
and  his  nigger  luck  were  in  all  their  glory, 
he  went  to  the  polls  and  exclaimed  as  fol¬ 
lows:  ‘  AU  you  white  people  come  and  see 
me  vote  for  negroes.’  And  Ibis  he  did,  and 
at  that  election  a  negro  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  to  represent  this  good  old 
county. 

To  which  Webster's  Weekly,  a  near 
neighbor  to  Adams,  adds  the  following: 

“There  can  be  no  question  as  to  Judge* 
Adams'  attitude  toward  the  negroes  while 
lie  lived  in  Caswell.  lie  was  their  recog¬ 
nized  leader,  taught,  drilled  and  organized 
them,  so  that  they  were  able  to  elect  one 
of  their  own  race  to  represent  t  he  proud 
counties  of  Graves  and  Yancey  in  their 
Legislature.  He  wax'M  fat  by  teaching 
the  negroes  that  their  neighbors  were  their 
political  enemies.  He  taught  there  that 
the  white  people,  who  furnished  them  work 
and  provided  them  schools,  could  not  be 
trusted  in  political  matters.” 


ADAMS  DEGRADED  HIMSELF. 

•r  _ 

MADE  ANOTHER  SPEECH  LIKE  HIS  CHARGE 
TO  THE  GRAND  JURY  IN  COLUMBUS. 

[  C ha  t  ha  in  I  U?e ord . } 

The  main  feature  of  this  black  and  tan 
"Republican  County  0  uvention  was  the 
‘speech of  ex- Judge  Spencer  B.  Adams,  and 
i  :  seems  almost  incredible  that  a  man, 
who  had  ever  been  elected  a  judge  even 
by  Fusionists,  could  have  so  far  degraded 
himself  by  making  a  speech  so  full  of  false¬ 
hoods  and  misrepresentations.  '  Among 
other  false  statements  made  by  him  was 
the  deliberate  assertion  that  the  Demo¬ 
cratic  party  in  North  Carolina  would  not 
allow  a  white  man,  who  did  not  own  land, 
to  vote  for  Senators  until  after  the  war, 
and  that  then  the  Republican  party  gave 
them  that  right ? 

J  udge  Adams  either  did  or  did  not  know 
this  statement  to  be  false.  If  lie  did  not 
know  it  to  be  false,  then  he  ought  never 
to  make  another  speech,  for  any  man  so 
ignorant  as  that  should  never  attempt  to 
teach  other  people.  And  if  lie  did  know 
it  to  be  false,  he  ought  to  be  too  ashamed  to 
show  his  face  again  in  public ! 

The  fact  is  (as  every  intelligent  man 
knows),  that  the  Democratic  party  was 
'  he  advocate  of  “free  suffrage”  and  in 
1854  carried  this  State  on  that  issue,  elect¬ 
ing  David  S.  Reid  Governor  over  his  Whig 
opponent,  Gov.  Charles  Manly. 

Judge  Adams  thought  it  necessary  to 
state  that  he  is  no  office-seeker,  and  “wants 
no  office.”  But  he  did  not  state  (as  is  the 
truth)  that  he  has  been  holding  office 
nearly  ever  since  he  was  old  enough  and 
is  now  holding  an  office  that  pays  more  in 
proportion  to  the  work  required  than  any 
office  in  this  State ! 

INCENDIARY  ADVICE  TO 
NEGROES. 


The  Washington  Bee  (Afro-American) 
fears  that  when  the  negroes  of  North  Car¬ 
olina  go  to  the  polls  to  vote  upon  the  pro¬ 
posed  amendment,  “the  whites  will  com¬ 
bine,  and  by  force  of  arms  and  their  bloody 
and  dastardly  methods  prevent  negroes 
from  voting.”  and  it  gives  the  North  Car¬ 
olina  negroes  the  following  counsel: 

“Force  is  to  be  detested  when  exercised 
in  a  contest  where  conscience,  patriotism, 
and  eloquence  should,  be  the.  controlling 
forces.  Yet  the  sense  of  manly  indepen¬ 
dence  and  self-preservation  dictates  that, 
brute  force  be  met  by.  a  like  force  when 
other  forces  become  useless.  God  forbid 
that  the  tragic  scenes  about  Wilmington 
be  re-enacted  this  year,  but  should  such 
be  attempted,  manliness,  justice  and  self- 
respect  demand  that  the  negroes  shall 
defend  their  helpless  sisters,  wives  and 
daughters  against  unholy  slaughter  by 
gangs  of  bloodthirsty  and  heartless  brutes. 

“We  trust  that  the  thinking  class  of 
whites  in  North  Carolina  will  not  be  led 
into  schemes  of  gross  injustice  and  crime 


by  unprincipled  and  designing  demagogs 
and  grasping  politicians. 

“Above  all,  it  is  the  duty  of  all  intelli¬ 
gent  and  manly  colored  people  to  watch 
and  be  prepared  for  the  worst  and  not  fall 
with  their  backs  toward  t  lie  enemy.” 

From  such  advice  as  this  grows  riot  and 
bloodshed.  Men  who  give  such  advice  are 
the  negroes’  worst  enemy. 

One  thing  is  certain:  This  State  is  going 
to  be  ruled  by  its  white  citizenship  and 
those  who  set  themselves  up  to  give  advice 
to  the  negro  would  do  well  to  recognize 
that  fact. 


PRITCHARD’S  ASHEVILLE 

ORGAN 


IMITATES  THE  NEGRO  MANLY,  AND  TRA¬ 
DUCES  WHITE  MEN  IN  SAYING 


[Asheville  Register  (Republican)]. 

“  But  why  does  ‘trie  desire  to  eliminate 
ignorance  extend  only  to  the  negro?  If 
ignorance  is  a  constant  menace  to  the  State, 
certainly  it  ought  to  be  wholly  eradicated 
and  not  stop  at  the  least  offensive  part. 
The  ignorance  which  disturbs  the  peace  in 
this  State  is  found  among  the  whites  in  the 
Democratic  party,  and  not  among  the  ne¬ 
groes.  If  the  negro  is  unfit  for  the  ballot 
by  reason  of  his  lack  of  learning,  certainly 
the  white  man  who  is  equally  as  ignorant 
‘is  also  unfit  for  the  ballot.  No  amount  1 
sophistry  can  destroy  the  force  of  this  ar¬ 
gument.” 

SENATOR  BUTLER 


IN  HIS  SPEECH  AT  ROCKY  MOUNT .  N.  C.. 
OCTOBER  15,  1899. 


“If  colored  men  commit  outrages  the 
Democrats  pretend  to  be  terribly  shocked 
in  public,  but  when  they  get  behind  a  wall 
they  laugh  until  they  grow  fat,  and  if  the 
outrages  are  not  frequent  enough  they  hire 
worthless  negroes  to  commit  them.” 

The  men  who  certified  that  Butler  made 
this  statement  in  his  Rocky  Mount  speech 
are : 

Rev.  B.  S.  McKenzie,  Dr.  F.  J  Thorpe, 
,T.  R.  Daughtry,  R  IF  Ricks,  F.  M. 
Draughan,  Isaac  Levy,  Rev.  A.  D.  Betts. 


EXTRACT  FROM  CAUCASIAN. 


SENATOR  BUTLER  IN  CAUCASIAN ,  SEPTEM¬ 
BER  30,  1897. 

“The  awful  crime  of  rape,  the  condem¬ 
nation  of  which  should  be  prompted  by 
sincere  motives  and  honest  purposes  is 
used  in  a  hypocritical  manner 
for  base  partisan  ends,  and  all  the  time 
they  are  condemning  the  nature  of  the 
crime. they  are  secretly  longing  for  more- 
rapes,  that  they  may  belter  play  upon  the 
prejudices  of  the  people.’’ 


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the  negro  and  his  white  allies. 


LINNET  AND  WHITE. 


REPUBLICAN  CONGRESSMAN  LfNNEY,  WHEN 
ASKED  A  QUESTION  IN  CONGRESS, 
YIELDS  THE  FLOOR  TO  NEGRO 
'  CONGRESSMAN  GEO.  H. 

WHITE,  WHO  SAID : 


“  I  have  investigated  the  facts  in  regard, 
to  these  lynchings  for  the  last  two  and  a 
half  years,  and  X  say  that  ’ess  than  seven* 
ty-five  per  cent,  of  the  lynchings  which 
have  ocoured  in  the  United  States  were 
chargeable  to  the  cause  stated :  and  if  there 
were,  not  outrages  and  assaults  committed, 
not  upon  white  women  by  black  men,  but 
by  white  men  upon  black  women,  these 
lynchings  would  be  lews  than  they  are 
now.’* 

White  is  the  type  of  the  negro  officehold¬ 
ers  elevated  by  the  Re-pop-li-e.ans.  Is  it 
any  wonder  that  the  white  people  are  de¬ 
termined  to  end  negro  officeholding  in 
North  Carolina? 

CHAIRMAN  HOLTON 


WANTS  FEDERAL  AID . 


[Washington  (D.  C. »  Correspondent  of  Atlanta 

Journal.^]' 

“  Republican  State  Chairman  A.  E.  Hol¬ 
ton,  of  North  Carolina,  is  in  the  city  to  d  is¬ 
cuss  with  the  administration  officials  the 
proposed  franchise  amendment  in  that 
.State. 

“  This  is  the  iivest  local  State  issue  in  * 
the  United  States  to-day,  and  party  lead¬ 
ers  on  both  sides  are  taking  a  keen  interest 
in  the  fight.  Chairman  Holton  will  talk 
the  matter  over  with  Senator  Hanna  and 
President  McKinley  to-day,  and  will  inti¬ 
mate,  it  is  said,  that  Federal  troops  will 
be  necessary  when  the  vote  is  taken.  He 
will  also  urge  prominent  •Republicans  to 
go  to  North  Carolina  anu  take  part  in  the 
campaign. 

“  The  chairman  is  charging  fraud,  intim¬ 
idation,  desperation,  lawlessness  and  uiany 
other  things  against  the  Democrats  in  gen¬ 
eral  and  Chairman  Simmons  in  particular, 
and  declares  that  riot  and  bloodshed  will 
inevitably  result,  as  the  negroes  are  de¬ 
termined  to  fight  for  and  demand  their 
rights.” 

GEORGE  h.  white, 


IN  His  SPEECH  BEFORE  THE  REPUBLICAN 
CONVENTION  OF  1898,  SAID  : 


“lam  not  the  only  negro  who  holds 
office.  There  are  others.  There  are  plenty 
more  l-ony  made  to  order  to  hold  offices.  We 
don’t  hold  as  many  as  we  will. 

The  Democrats  talk  about  the  color  line 
an  the  negro  holding  office.  I  INVITE 
TILE  ISSUE.’’ 

These  were  the  words  of  Geo.  XI.  White, 
Republican  member  of  Congress  from  the 
Second  District,  the  only  negro  member  of. 
Congress  in  the  United  States.  He  was 
addressing  the  1898  Republican  Conven¬ 
tion  in  Raleigh,  and  he  was  cheered  to  the 
echo  by  the  delegates  to  that  convention. 
He  was  the  lion  of  the  occasion,  ami.  his 
speech  was  LtXE  speech  of  the  convention. 


NEGROES  BAY 


WHITES  OF  THE  CARO  UN  AS  DESCENDED 
FROM  SLAVES  AND  FELONS. 

A  convention  of  negroes  has  just  been 
held  in  Washington  City  to  protest  against 
the  amendment  to  our  Constitution  and 
against  lynching.  They  appointed  a  com¬ 
mittee,  which  deliberated  over  the  matter 
and  reported  to  the  convention,  among 
other  things  the  following,  which  we  copied 
from  the  Washington  Post : 

“  We  are  willing  that  our  genealogy  be 
compared  with  that  of  those  white  people 
whose  ancestors  were  brought  over  from 
the  prisons  of  England  by  shiploads  and 
made  slaves  for  a  period,  after  which  they 
were  permitted  to  become  citizens  on 
equal  footing  with  their  former  masters, 
from  1010  to  1625  in  the  Carol inas  and  Vir¬ 
ginia.  We  only  ask  for  the  same  generous 
treatment,  since  we  have  become  free  cit¬ 
izens,  that  was  bestowed  upon  this  class, 
WHO  NOW  COMPRISE  THE  GOVERN¬ 
ING  ELEMENT  OF  THE  SOUTH.” 


SPENCER  BLACKBURN. 


EXTRACT  FROM  HIS  SPEECH  AT  NEWTON. 


“  Goebel  was  shot  down  at  the  steps  of 
the  capital  because  he  was  the  arch  perpe¬ 
trator  of  this  hellish  scheme.  It  was  no 
more  than  might  have  been  expected.”' 
Then  drawing  himsei  f  up  to  his  full  height, 
he  shouted:  “North  Carolina  Democrats 
may  take  warning  fr*  n  the  fate  of  William 
Goebel.” 

The  Goebel  referred  to  by  Blackburn  in 
the  above  harangue  was  the  Democratic 
Governor-elect  of  Kentucky,  who  was 
foully  murdered  by  i  he  followers  of  Gov. 

Taylor,  the  Republican  usurper  of  the  of¬ 
fice  to  which  Goeb  -1  had  been  elected, 
because  lie  dared  to  contest  before  the 
Legislature  in  the  vay  provided  by  law 
the  right  of  this  usurper  to  the  office  of 
Governor. 

Blackburn  is  very  close  to  Republican 
Chairman  Holton.  Holton  is  United  States 
District  Attorney  of  the  AVe stern  District 
and  Blackburn  is  his  assistant  in  i  his  office. 
He  is  a  protege,  of  Senator  Rri tc hard ,  and 
the  above  threat  was  delivered  from  the 
same  platform  from  which  Pritchard  had 
just  spoken 


SENATOR  BUTLER 


IN  HIS  SPEECH  BEFORE  THE  POPULIST  EX¬ 
ECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  AT  ITS  LATE 
MEETING  SAID: 

“  We  have  got  to  fight  and  we  had  as  well 
make  up  our  minds  to  do  it. 

“  The  Republicans  are  in  this  fight  to  the 
death.  Let,  us  join  hands  with  them  and  help 
them  whip  this  gang  out  of  the  State.  Let  us 
announce  to  the  world  that  North.Carolina 
will  no  longer  be  rul'd  by  anarchists,  red- 
shirts  and  a  little  gang  of  toadies — men 
who  have  betrayed  everybody  and  every¬ 
thing. 

“  i  he  Republican®  are  willing  for  us  to 
take  the  lead,  go  ahead  and  hold  a  conven¬ 
tion  uid  name  a  ticket.  They  will  help  us 
elect  it.” 


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THE  NORTH  CAROLINA  COLLECTION 


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